10 Great Horror Movies Where The World Literally Ends
9. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the greatest remakes, horror or otherwise, ever made, and that's in large part due to its courage to commit to an unrelentingly bleak finale.
While the original 1956 film concludes with humanity fighting back against the extraterrestrial Pods, this remake hews closer to the '56 film's bleaker original ending, where humanity is basically snuffed out by the aliens.
In the final scene, protagonist Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) meets up with one of the city's few human survivors, Nancy Bellicec (Veronica Cartwright). But at that moment, he opens his mouth wide, shrieks, and points at Nancy, revealing he's also been duplicated by the Pods, and surely sealing Nancy's fate in the process.
The wider implication, of course, is that humans are helpless to defend against the Pods, who after taking the city will surely wipe out the rest of the human race and effectively leave Earth a dead planet, at least as far as our presence is concerned.